Tiergarten 4 Series.

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In 1939 the democratically elected government of Germany began a nationwide program of killing its own mentally and physically disabled population, declaring them a burden to society.  It began as a forced sterilization program and developed into a childrens' euthanasia program, in which 5,000 children were murdered. Older disabled adults were later included.

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The government obtained the names of all patients institutionalized for 5 years or more. The victims were transported to one of six euthanasia centres across the country and systematically gassed and cremated.  Over 200,000 innocent men, women and children were murdered.

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Each of the six paintings in this series represents one of the killing centres as they exist today. (Tiergarten 4 was the address in Berlin of the central administration of the euthanasia program.)